Playing God with Emerging Technologies
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Playing God with Emerging Technologies

How to Avoid the Traps of Techno-Optimism and Techno-Pessimism

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  2. English
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Playing God with Emerging Technologies

How to Avoid the Traps of Techno-Optimism and Techno-Pessimism

About this book

Public debates over the morality of new or emerging technologies tend to devolve into false dichotomies of optimism versus pessimism. Playing God with Emerging Technologies: How to Avoid the Traps of Techno-Optimism and Techno-Pessimism provides a conceptual apparatus for engaging in such debates in a critical manner through the constructive lens of "playing God" arguments. Moti Mizrahi sketches a conceptual framework consisting of an argumentation scheme for "playing God" arguments along with Critical Questions. This framework can be used to analyze and evaluate "playing God" arguments as they are made in debates over the ethical development and deployment of new or emerging technologies, such as solar geoengineering, Artificial Intelligence (AI), autonomous vehicles, autonomous weapons, and more.

Mizrahi argues that "playing God" arguments allow us to assume an intermediate, critical attitude between the extremes of hype and panic as well as approach the governance of new or emerging technologies in ways that might help to increase our control over, improve our understanding of, and prevent our misuse or abuse of such technologies.

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Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2025
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9798216263210
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Part I: “Playing God” Arguments in Theory
  9. Chapter 1: The Ethics of New or Emerging Technologies
  10. Chapter 2: “Playing God” Arguments
  11. Chapter 3: An Argumentation Scheme for “Playing God” Arguments
  12. Chapter 4: How to Analyze and Evaluate “Playing God” Arguments
  13. Part II: “Playing God” Arguments in Practice
  14. Chapter 5: Are We “Playing God” with Geoengineering?
  15. Chapter 6: Are We “Playing God” with Artificial Intelligence?
  16. Chapter 7: Are We “Playing God” with Autonomous Vehicles?
  17. Chapter 8: Are We “Playing God” with Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems?
  18. Epilogue
  19. References
  20. Index
  21. About the Author

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